Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Slay by Brittney Morris

17 reviews

fynnnnnn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Outing, and Medical content

quinn22's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Murder, and Child death

Minor: Alcohol, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Violence, Bullying, and Ableism

trippalli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

My favorite book so far this year! It's exciting and I loved and rallied for the main characters. Being a woman in I.T. my whole life I am cheering full on this whole book. Also, I definitely was moved to tears and literally cried a half dozen places in the story, wow.  So moving. Black Lives Matter! I love this story 100%

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Murder

The murder is a major plot point but not graphic nor related to the emotional abuse story that's laterb in timeline and different characters

melplays9000's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book really flew by for me. I wasn’t checking the page number every couple pages like I normally am and I wasn’t even aware of the time while I was reading. I loved the whole concept of this book which drew me in right from the start. A black author writing about the black experience usually intimidates my pathetic white arse (I’m working on it) but this book was so much easier to read than I expected. I loved the conversations this book had and I feel I learned so much from reading it. My favorite part was the characters, they were all so complex and really felt like real people which definitely helped drive the story.

I don’t know exactly what I didn’t like about this book, but I know I can’t give it 5 stars because it just didn’t have the feel of a new favorite. It was quite short and I never truly got invested before it was over. 

I’m so glad I read this book. I need to make more of an effort to pick up books with characters and experiences unlike my own; this book was definitely an excellent start to that. Great book, would recommend. 4 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

krisrow's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Murder

azaliz's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

it's an amazing book! Full of Black culture and love and power.

It also shows Black women in STEM! People exploring who they are thanks to videogames (including trans and non-binary folks)! And just, people basking in a world where they can be themselves and not oppressed <3
There's also some very real discourse about what it means to be Black nowadays, the weight of history and prejudice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Stalking

Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, and Gun violence

Minor: Transphobia

butyougotmysoul's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was really well written, engaging, and exciting.  There were several parts that I felt were a bit extraneous and didn't add too much to the story, but it was negligible when compared with the overall book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Minor: Gun violence, Violence, Child death, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, and Police brutality